Monte carlo heat transfer modeling of a particle-cloud solar reactor for SnO2 thermal reduction

Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Villafn Vidales, H I ^a   Arancibia Bulnes, C A ^b   Abanades, S ^a   Riveros Rosas, D ^b   Romero Paredes, H ^c  

^a Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^c DEPARTAMENTO DE QUÍMICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

particle cloud solar reactor; ray tracing; solar cavity reactor; solar fuels; thermochemical cycles; tin dioxide

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE DIAMETER; CONCENTRATED SOLAR ENERGY; DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTIC; ENDOTHERMIC REACTIONS; HEAT TRANSFER MODELING; MONTE CARLO; OPERATIONAL CONDITIONS; OPTICAL THICKNESS; PARTICLE CONCENTRATIONS; PARTICLE SUSPENSIONS; PARTICLE TEMPERATURE; POWER DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION AND CONVECTION; RADIATIVE CHARACTERISTICS; SOLAR CAVITY REACTOR; SOLAR FUELS; SOLAR REACTORS; STEADY-STATE MODELS; THERMAL REDUCTION; THERMOCHEMICAL CYCLES;

HEAT CONVECTION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; REDUCTION; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR EQUIPMENT; TIN; TIN DIOXIDE;

SUSPENSIONS (FLUIDS);

EID: 80054794821     PISSN: 01996231     EISSN: 15288986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.4004550     Document Type: Article

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